News archive for 28th March 2018

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Number of degree apprenticeships to surge in next three years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inspecting independent schools: questionnaire for staff - Ofsted School workforce planning - DfE High needs strategic planning fund - DfE Advanced learner loans qualifications catalogue - Education & Skills Funding Agency Boost to support disadvantaged families during the holidays - DfE Qualification achievement rates and minimum standards - Education & Skills Funding Agency Qualifications: eligible for public funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency University students are turning to private tutors to get through their degree, survey shows - Telegraph Students to face more disruption as union reveals new university strike dates - Independent UK university staff to vote on latest pensions offer - Guardian Three senior Team Wearside staff jailed for £460,000 fraud - FE Week Programme for College Expo launched - Times Educational Supplement | TES Police confirm email containing threat to pupils was a hoax - Times Educational Supplement | TES Genes, intelligence and education - Montrose42 Is it okay to take term time holidays? - The Educator Rejected teachers’ pay offer will ‘lead to industrial action’ in Scotland - The Educator Comparing widening participation at public and alternative HE providers - Wonkhe What’s the latest with the knowledge exchange framework (KEF)? - Wonkhe Why leadership ambition benefits the whole HE sector - Wonkhe Parents flushed with anger over primary school's decision to remove loo roll from kids' toilets - Mirror Daily roundup 28 March: Mental health, teacher jailed, and inpatient unit - CYPN | Children & Young People Now MPs call for extension of 30 hours childcare to all children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Science clubs can help socially disadvantaged pupils’ scientific aspirations - IOE London Blog School staff more satisfied with their jobs than employees in other workplaces, study reveals - IOE London Blog Further education residential accommodation: national minimum standards - DfE Differences in student degree and employment outcomes - HEFCE Parental conflict can do lasting damage to children - UKEdChat Investing in public education earns high marks for greater upward mobility - UKEdChat How images and imagination can enhance learning - Learning Scientists What are the key drivers for colleges to think and act more like a commercial business? - Capita FHE Why do pupils who went to infant and first schools appear to underperform at Key Stage 4? - Education Datalab France: Emmanuel Macron to lower school age to three in bid to stamp out terror - Express UCU members to be consulted over latest USS pension dispute proposals - UCU CBI calls for urgent reform to the Apprenticeship Levy - CBI People at university are making fun of my working-class roots. Do I try to change or stay true to who I am? - Guardian Good exam results are made in the Easter holidays - Independent Schools Council | ISC A step towards a new post-Brexit migration system? - Russell Group Grammar schools don’t add any value. So let’s ditch them | Ryan Shorthouse - Guardian Home Office blocks Syrian boy going on Edinburgh school’s ultimate trip - Scotsman Shakira Martin easily holds on to leadership of students union - Guardian Schools across country on lockdown after email says children will be 'shot in the street' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four key things we learned from data on looked-after pupils - Schools Week Investment in teachers is an investment in our children and young people - HuffPost DfE offers £2 million to research healthy holiday meals - Schools Week 'We need an upper limit on teachers' hours' – Kevin Courtney - Times Educational Supplement | TES US teenagers are right to be fired up about gun control - Financial Times Number of primary school pupils eligible for free school meals - Parliament Tom Bewick is the new Federation of Awarding Bodies chief executive - Times Educational Supplement | TES NIck Gibb responds to question re teachers identifying mental illness in schools - Parliament New college student housing rules published - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nine-year-old charged for taking knife into Aberdeenshire school - Scotsman Shakira Martin re-elected as NUS president - FE Week France lowers statutory school starting age - Nursery World Shakira Martin re-elected as NUS president after beating Momentum activist - Independent Was there ever a golden age for the grammar school? - FE News Thousands of pupils in Scotland 'missing out on "life-saving" cancer education' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Shakira Martin re-elected NUS president - Times Educational Supplement | TES New network will help teachers become joint heads - Schools Week Tests and narrow curriculum behind 'explosion' in mental ill health, says union - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tom Bewick appointed new Chief Executive of FAB (Federation of Awarding Bodies) - FE News Jewish schoolboy ‘forced to eat ham pizza’ - Times Looked-after children are five times more likely to be temporarily excluded, and six other figures released today - Times Educational Supplement | TES Skills Minister highlights new provider access law for schools - Sector Response - FE News Schools are failing to provide the workers we need, warn British industries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Federation of Awarding Bodies appoints Tom Bewick as new chief executive - FE Week Guildford College to join Activate Learning - FE Week Campaigners to deliver letter to PM calling for more funding to save children's centres - Nursery World Nursery group launches action plan to recruit more men to work in the early years - Nursery World Guildford College Group plans merger with Activate Learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inspecting learning and skills training for people in custody - Ofsted Universities making progress tackling student sexual misconduct, but more must be done - Universities UK Interested in integrated degrees: it’s time to listen to what students want - HEPI Education Secretary launches new Foundation Phase Excellence Network - Welsh Government Universities have too few women at the top. How can they redress the balance? | Jenny Tester - Guardian Scottish schools ‘heading for industrial action’ as pay offer rejected - Scotsman Elaine Smith: The SNP has failed to tackle child poverty for a decade - Scotsman The Duke of Edinburgh Awards equip young people for life - Scotsman 'I stayed in my job, but I was terrified of him just looking at me' - Guardian Inspectors give top marks to two Scottish state schools - Herald Scotland Syria: The world's toughest place to study? - BBC Teenagers revising for summer exams should study for seven hours a day during the Easter vacation if they want to get top grades - Mail System 'can't handle the crisis of pupils' mental health' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warwick University to offer joint degrees with European institutions - Guardian Fake teacher Umar Haque groomed his pupils for terrorist attacks - Times Oxford is bottom of the class for accepting poor students - Times Schoolgirls wear shorts to stop ‘upskirts’ - Times Holier than thou: students most likely to attend church - Times Scotland: 1,500 college staff lack teacher training - Times Teenage pregnancy rates at their lowest levels since records began in 1969 - Express Warwick links up with Paris and Brussels universities - Financial Times Schoolgirls are forced to wear shorts under their skirts to stop boys from 'upskirting', teachers’ leader warns - Telegraph